Peabody, Gibson and Nelson

Have you been hurt in an accident?  Don’t take the law into your own hands, call Peabody, Gibson and Nelson today!  Sorry, that title just sounds like the name of a law firm.  But no law firms are in our story today just hotels, guitars and friends.  Dacen was really interested in the factory tour at Gibson Guitars and Brielle wanted to watch the famous duck march at the Peabody Hotel.  So we split into two groups:  the boys did guitars and the girls did ducks.  Both places were withing a few blocks of each other so Steph dropped us guys off then found parking before taking Brielle to the hotel.
Wall o' guitarsHow cute

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Mud Island

Our adventure today will take us to Mud Island.  With our picnic lunch packed we crossed the Mississippi from our Arkansas campground to Tennessee (about a 10-15 minute drive) to this little island in the river.  You have to pay $6 to park for the day.  The lot only had 3 or 4 other cars in it so there was no trouble finding a spot.  What were we doing here?  Why does one venture onto Mud Island?  Because as you watch a portion of the Mighty Mississippi flow by the island you can also enjoy viewing and playing in the entire length of the Mini Mississippi:  a 2000 foot long exact scale model of the Mississippi river!  You can read all the stats and detailed info here.

Amazing details

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Music and Memphis

In the heat of the day we rolled into Tom Sawyer’s Campground on the western bank of the Mississippi across from Memphis.  We got the AC cranked up and took shelter inside Ava.  After an early dinner we headed downtown to take in some free music at Overton Square…it’s Bluesday Tuesday.  They had several corn hole games set up and the kids pretty much played corn hole the whole time that we listened to Reba Somebody (can’t remember her name) belt out the blues.  She was very good and her band was very talented as well.  You can see some of the pictures from the evening here.
Corn hole

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